Warner Bros considering The Shining prequel

A prequel to the famous
Stanley Kubrick horror film The Shining could be in the works.

Warner Bros is quietly thinking of developing a prequel to The Shining (Picture: File)

Warner Bros has apparently enlisted a team of Hollywood producers to come up with a new spin on the original 1980 film which starred Jack Nicholson .A source told the Los Angeles Times that the prequel would focus on what happened before Nicholson’s character Jack Torrance and his wife and son moved into the haunted house where Torrance terrorised his family.However, fans of the classic film shouldn’t get too excited, as a spokeswoman for Warner Bros added that the movie is not even officially in development.

Kubrick’s creation is still hailed by film fans as one of the best horror movies ever made, with the line ‘Here’s Johnny!’ achieving cult status.Stephen King, author of the novel that the film is adapted from, is already writing a follow up entitled Dr. Sleep which follows Torrance’s son Danny decades after the events of The Shining.King said of the new book: ‘I can tell you that this is an idea that I’ve had for some time. I wrote a novel in the 70s called The Shining… always wondered what happened to that kid, Danny Torrance, when he grew up.

‘What’s going on with him? Where did he go after this terrible experience? And little by little, this story started to form,’ he added.

It is not yet known whether Dr. Sleep will have any bearing on the Warner Bros prequel.